Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and a prosecution witness say Serbs were not responsible for starting the war in Bosnia, but rather “Muslim paramilitary extremist formations” from Sandzak.
At the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the Hague Prosecution continues examining Nedjeljko Prstojevic, who defends discussions about dividing Sarajevo.
On the second day of his testimony at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Prosecution witness Anthony Banbury speaks about the situation in Gorazde enclave, saying that Bosnian Serb forces prevented UNPROFOR from moving about freely.
A former UN officer, testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, says the indictee had control over events in Sarajevo and parts of Bosnia, where Serbs formed a majority.
A French court has ordered former Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Biljana Plavsic to pay €200,000 to a Bosnian family for wartime abuses in a potentially precedent-setting case.
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Testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a prosecution witness says that Serbs wanted parts of Sarajevo to remain in Serb possession.
Testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a protected Prosecution witness says that she was “mistreated and forced to leave her home” in Grbavica, Sarajevo in 1992.
A protected prosecution witness, testifying at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, says that Serb forces intentionally targeted civilians in their sniping and shelling attacks in order to generate “fear and terror”.
Hague Prosecution witness Nedjeljko Prstojevic tells the Karadzic trial that in January 1992 the Crisis Committee and assembly of the Serbian municipality of Ilidza were established on instructions from the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS.
In his testimony at Radovan Karadzic's trial, Mehmed Music says he spent five months in various detention centres controlled by Serb authorities in Hadzici in 1992, while Karadzic calls him a "favourite prosecution witness".
On the second day of his testimony at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, a former official in Svrake, Vogosca municipality, says that “the Serb authorities” deported more than a thousand Bosniaks from that village in 1992.
A Prosecution witness at the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says that Serb forces forcibly removed more then 13,000 Bosniaks and Croats from Vogosca municipality in 1992.
During the course of cross-examination, indictee Radovan Karadzic and a protected Prosecution witness spar over who is responsible for starting the war in Bosnia and who committed more crimes during the conflict.
During cross-examination, wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and a prosecution witness disagree over whether citizens were "evacuated" from Ahatovici in 1992.
Court expert Berko Zecevic says that an order for his murder was issued after he said that the projectile that hit Markale marketplace in February 1994 could have been fired from a position held by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Background
Karadzic: War Criminal or Poet?
To the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was a true sensation, and one to be exploited day after day.
Srebrenica: Genocide Reconstructed
In July 1995 Srebrenica was shelled and occupied by the Army of Republic of Srpska,VRS, despite being declared a protected area by the United Nations. More than 7,000 people were killed, the victims of genocide.